Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frightening bumper sticker slogan was born, characteristic of an attitude arising from the stultifying pattern of major events coming from and leading to nowhere. Kurt Vonnegut's deadening commentary on Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five "So it goes," was transposed into: "Shit happens...
...aspiriation to professions usually comes before the aspiration to pure scholarship," says Vendler of the pattern to create a minority middle class. But now, Blacks and Hispanics have begun to establish a middle class and can afford to venture into teaching, she says. "I would think there is a large enough Black middle class that their children can be scholars...
...baring, rattling, coiling, head-rearing glory. The Western diamondback, Crotalus (castanet) atrox (fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive moltings. The ceaseless, disturbed rattling of so many snakes together is like the sound of bacon frying in a hundred skillets...
Life is a little easier in Jalazun since the army lifted the curfew last month. Nonetheless, the intifadeh, now into its sixth month, has fundamentally altered daily life throughout the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Though the violence seems to be tapering off, Palestinians are settling into a pattern of sullen resistance. Spurred by orders from the uprising's leadership and restricted by countermeasures from the military authorities, the Palestinians are turning self-reliant to defy Israeli rule. And in just as many ways, Israel is struggling to reassert its control over daily Arab life in the territories...
Sultan's instinct for pattern could have degenerated into a formula by now, especially given the market demand for his drawings, but it shows no sign of doing so -- though the small still-life paintings are perhaps another matter. Within his limitations, he is certainly an artist to watch...